COVID19 at Meat-Processing Plants Highlights Key Link, and Vulnerabilities, In Food Supply Chain

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And New York Times writers Michael Corkery and David Yaffe-Bellany reported recently that, “Yet meat plants, honed over decades for maximum efficiency and profit, have become major ‘hot spots’ for the coronavirus pandemic, with some reporting widespread illnesses among their workers. The health crisis has revealed how these plants are becoming the weakest link in the nation’s food supply chain, posing a serious challenge to meat production.

“After decades of consolidation, there are about 800 federally inspected slaughterhouses in the United States, processing billions of pounds of meat for food stores each year. But a relatively small number of them account for the vast majority of production. In the cattle industry, a little more than 50 plants are responsible for as much as 98 percent of slaughtering and processing in the United States, according to Cassandra Fish, a beef analyst.”

The Times article indicated that,

Shutting down one plant, even for a few weeks, is like closing an airport hub. It backs up hog and beef production across the country, crushes prices paid to farmers and eventually leads to months of meat shortages.

COVID19 at Meat-Processing Plants Highlights Key Link, and Vulnerabilities, In Food Supply Chain - Farm Policy News

Bloomberg writers Stephen Joyce, Michael Hirtzer, and Jen Skerritt reported this week that, "Hundreds of National Guard personnel are being activated in Iowa as coronavirus sweeps through meat-processing plants in a state that accounts for about a third of U.S. pork supply."

farmpolicynews.illinois.edu

 

[mudwhistle]

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And New York Times writers Michael Corkery and David Yaffe-Bellany reported recently that, “Yet meat plants, honed over decades for maximum efficiency and profit, have become major ‘hot spots’ for the coronavirus pandemic, with some reporting widespread illnesses among their workers. The health crisis has revealed how these plants are becoming the weakest link in the nation’s food supply chain, posing a serious challenge to meat production.

“After decades of consolidation, there are about 800 federally inspected slaughterhouses in the United States, processing billions of pounds of meat for food stores each year. But a relatively small number of them account for the vast majority of production. In the cattle industry, a little more than 50 plants are responsible for as much as 98 percent of slaughtering and processing in the United States, according to Cassandra Fish, a beef analyst.”

The Times article indicated that,

Shutting down one plant, even for a few weeks, is like closing an airport hub. It backs up hog and beef production across the country, crushes prices paid to farmers and eventually leads to months of meat shortages.

COVID19 at Meat-Processing Plants Highlights Key Link, and Vulnerabilities, In Food Supply Chain - Farm Policy News

Bloomberg writers Stephen Joyce, Michael Hirtzer, and Jen Skerritt reported this week that, "Hundreds of National Guard personnel are being activated in Iowa as coronavirus sweeps through meat-processing plants in a state that accounts for about a third of U.S. pork supply."

farmpolicynews.illinois.edu

Guess the left wants us all to stop eating food now.
Maybe we can fill our stomachs with the wonders of Socialism.

 

[Dont Taz Me Bro]

Guess the left wants us all to stop eating food now.
Maybe we can fill our stomachs with the wonders of Socialism.

What does this have to do with the left?

 

[Blues Man]

Makes me glad I don't eat meat anymore